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Loading Clips into Paint
When accessing the Paint Tool, you first select the clips that you want to use. Any of the following
combinations of clips can be used in Paint:
A front clip only
A front clip and a back clip
A front clip and a matte clip
A front clip, a back clip, and a matte clip
None (a blank canvas)
The front clip appears on the Paint canvas, which you can use to apply colours and effects to the clip. The
matte clip delimits the area of the front clip affected by painting. The back clip can be revealed or brushed
through onto the front clip. The colour of the blank canvas is defined by the wipe colour.
NOTE The image window in Paint is referred to as the canvas in the following sections.
To load clips into the Paint Tool:
1 Select ToolsPaint.
The cursor changes to Pick Front.
2 Select the front clip.
The cursor changes to Render Here.
3 Click on any free (or a grey) area on the workspace.
You are now in the Paint Tool.
The Paint menu appears.
4 Access one of the following Paint menus.
To:Click:
Use the brushes or geometric shapes to paint on the canvas, record and apply strokes
to the canvas, fill areas of the image with a reference colour or image, and move the
image on the canvas.
Paint
Create, edit, and animate shapes and apply them to the canvas.Graphics
Create and add effects to cutouts and apply them to the canvas.CutOut
Set preferences, rendering options, grid guides, and colour correction options.Setup
TIP See the tooltips for hints on all the Paint settings.
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